Silver Pines Launch Guide: Price, Editions, Platforms and Where to Start
Wych Elm and Team17's 2.5D horror metroidvania launched October 8 on five platforms. Here's what Silver Pines costs, which edition to buy, and how its slow-burn, Twin Peaks-inspired mystery actually plays.
Red Walker descends into Silver Pines, where a nightmarish presence has already begun consuming him from the inside. Image: Team17.
Silver Pines, the 2.5D survival horror metroidvania from developer Wych Elm and publisher Team17, launched on October 8 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Switch 2 and PC. It casts players as private investigator Red Walker, sent to a half-abandoned American town to track down a missing musician, and it trades the usual flashlight-and-zombies horror formula for a slower, Twin Peaks-flavored sense of dread. Here is what the game costs, where to get it, and how the opening hours actually play.
Who is Red Walker, and why is he in Silver Pines?
Walker takes the case as routine work: find Eddie Velvet, a local musician who has vanished without a trace. A late-night phone call telling him to "find Eddie Velvet" sets the plot moving, and it is not long before the town starts showing him things that do not add up. Hand-painted, rotoscoped animation gives every scene a smeared, dreamlike quality, and that art style is doing a lot of the horror work before a single monster appears on screen. The official Silver Pines site describes the town itself as a character, half-forgotten and keeping its own secrets from outsiders like Walker.
Price, editions and what's included
Silver Pines ships in two tiers. The standard edition lists for $24.99 across Steam, the PlayStation Store and the Xbox Store. A Deluxe Edition adds the original soundtrack, composed by Karl Flodin, plus a digital artbook, for a modest premium over the base game. PlayStation Plus members get a 10 percent launch discount through October 22, which brings the standard edition down to $22.49 for subscribers during that window.
- Standard Edition — the full game, $24.99
- Deluxe Edition — base game, digital soundtrack and artbook
- PS Plus discount — 10% off through October 22
Platforms, demo and Steam Deck support
Console players get the same build on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and both current Switch models, with no platform-exclusive content announced at launch. On PC, Silver Pines already carries Steam Deck's Verified badge, so handheld players should not run into control or readability problems out of the gate. A free demo covering the opening stretch of the game has been available on Steam ahead of release, and it is still up for anyone who wants to gauge the tone before buying. Team17's original announcement first detailed the game's premise and platform lineup back when it was revealed.
How Silver Pines actually plays
Mechanically, this is a straight survival horror metroidvania. Ammunition and supplies are scarce enough that fighting is not always the right call, and inventory space is tight, so players are constantly deciding what to carry and what to leave behind. Locked doors and gated sections of town open up as Walker finds better tools and equipment, in the familiar metroidvania loop of backtracking with new capabilities. Puzzles gate progress as often as combat does, and the game leans on environmental storytelling over exposition dumps to explain what happened to the town.
The cast of townsfolk Walker meets along the way are written as secretive and strange rather than simple quest-givers, and several early reviewers have noted that conversations are where the game's unease builds fastest, well before the first real confrontation with whatever is haunting Silver Pines.
How it stacks up against this fall's other horror launches
Silver Pines is a smaller, stranger release than this season's bigger horror names, including Silent Hill: Townfall's own launch week two weeks earlier, trading jump scares for slow-burn dread and a mystery that unfolds at walking pace. That makes the opening hour a useful test: if the demo or the first act clicks, the rest of the game commits fully to that same unsettling, surreal register rather than escalating into something louder.
Quick checklist before you start
- Try the free Steam demo first if you are on the fence about the pacing
- Budget extra inventory slots for key items early — space is limited from the start
- Avoid fighting when you can evade; ammo does not respawn freely
- Check every locked door again after finding a new tool, in true metroidvania fashion
- PlayStation Plus members should buy before October 22 to catch the launch discount